PřF:GA261 Geoarcheologie v practise - Course Information
GA261 Geoarchaeology in practise
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Jan Petřík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Katarína Adameková, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Jan Petřík, Ph.D.
Department of Geological Sciences – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: Ing. Jana Pechmannová
Supplier department: Department of Geological Sciences – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 14 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/14, only registered: 0/14, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/14 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Applied and environmental geology (programme PřF, B-AEG) (2)
- Applied and environmental geology (programme PřF, N-AEG) (2)
- Archaeology (programme FF, B-AE_) (3)
- Archaeology (programme FF, N-AE_) (3)
- Geoenvironmental risks and remediations (programme PřF, N-GRS) (2)
- Geology (Eng.) (programme PřF, B-GE) (2)
- Geology (Eng.) (programme PřF, N-GE) (2)
- Applied and Environmental Geology (Eng.) (programme PřF, B-GE) (2)
- Applied and Environmental Geology (programme PřF, B-GE) (2)
- Applied and Environmental Geology (programme PřF, N-GE) (2)
- Geology combined with Archaeology (programme PřF, B-GE) (2)
- Geology combined with Archaeology (programme PřF, N-GE) (2)
- Geology for Multi-Branches Study (programme PřF, B-GE) (2)
- Geology (programme PřF, B-GE) (2)
- Geology (programme PřF, B-GEO) (2)
- Geology (programme PřF, N-GE) (2)
- Geology (programme PřF, N-GEO) (2)
- Geology with a view to Education (programme PřF, B-GK)
- Geology with a view to Education (programme PřF, B-CH)
- Principles of geology (programme PřF, B-GEO) (2)
- Principles of geology (programme PřF, N-GEO) (2)
- Administrative Geology (programme PřF, B-GE) (2)
- Course objectives
- The course includes field trips to archaeological sites or important outcrops of quarternary sediments in the Brno city and sorroundings. Students will be introduced with geology of sites and with the basics of soil and sediments description relevant for archaeological practice. Deposits from selected sites will be analysed during laboratory practice.
- Learning outcomes
- After completing the course, student will be able to use the methodology of sediment and soil description in the investigation of archaeological sites.
- Syllabus
- 1.Field trip to selected site and introduction to methodology
- 2.Field trip to selected site and sampling of deposits
- 3.Laboratory methods introduction and sample analysis
- Literature
- recommended literature
- Eidt, R. C. (1973): A rapid chemical field test for archaeological site surveying, American Antiquity 38: 206-210.
- Ernée, M. (2005): Využití fosfátové půdní analýzy při interpretaci kulturního souvrství a zahloubených objektů z mladší a pozdní doby bronzové v Praze 10 - Záběhlicích, Archeologické rozhledy 57/2, 303-330.
- Lisá, L., Peška, M., Merta, D., Bajer, A., Zůbek, A. (2007): Aplikace geoarcheologie při interpretaci pleistocenních and holocenních sedimentů v prostoru Náměstí Svobody v Brně. Ve službách archeologie, ISSN 1802-5463, ISBN 80-7275-060-7, 2007, (1), p. 1
- W. Matthews, C.A.I. French, T. Lawrence, D.F. Cutler, M.K. Jones (1997): Microstratigraphic traces of site formation processes and human activities, World Archaeology 29 (2), 281–308.
- Teaching methods
- Excursion, laboratory practice
- Assessment methods
- Field trips and laboratory practice
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught once in two years.
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: Bude otevřeno v jarním semestru 2024/2025.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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